WriteMapper 4 is out for Mac and Windows

Posted by Dormouse
Dec 13, 2023 at 09:22 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
> >The price is fairly robust, but not bad compared to many other writing
>apps.

Which writing apps do you think its pricing compares well to?
I think it’s far more expensive than all the most popular competitors:
Word365 (as part of Office) comes with all the other apps and 1TB cloud on 5 devices. About the same price (albeit for a year) but for 5 devices.
Ulysses is $40 a year for unlimited devices
For free are Docs, LibreOffice, SmartEdit Writer, Obsidian, yWriter etc etc.
Dabble is more expensive - but very well designed for its particular niche. And the popular screenwriting programs are more expensive.

And for most niches I can think of WriteMapper fails on some required features, never mind nice to have.
A large % of fiction writers expect first line indent. Academics, and many journalists, require management of sources.

And it is totally confused about lines and paragraphs.
It interprets markdown lines as paragraphs. But new lines are simply added to the end of the paragraph - it doesn’t understand that it’s new line inside a paragraph.
Does better with docx
But it doesn’t understand new lines internally either. They become separate paragraphs when exported to docx.
Markdown’s assumption, taken from text editors, that Enter=new line has caused so many problems. WriteMapper taking Enter=New Paragraph is good; not displaying blank lines between paragraphs is good; but only if there’s a first line indent to clearly define paragraphs.

It looks like a markdown editor, which brings its own limitations. And no colour.
Very simple local plaintext file type; suprised they don’t make more of that in their publicity.